I) Definitions and Mechanisms
-Predictors and Prognostic Implications of Post-Cardiac Surgery Multiorgan Failure: Introductory Remarks

II) Specific Causes- The Cardiac Patient
-Prosthetic Valve Malfunction
 
III) Specific Organ System Dysfunction and the Heart
-Sepsis in Cardiac Patients
-Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease
-Abdominal Pain in Cardiac Patients
-Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Cardiac Patients
 
IV) Evaluation of the Complex Cardiac Patient
To be published soon
 
V) Emergency room and Intensive Care Unit Management of the Complex Cardiac Patient
-Acute Mechanical Cardiac Support/LVAD: Abiomed Impella (LP 2.5, LP 5.0 and LD)
-Acute Mechanical Cardiac Support/RVAD: Abiomed Impella (RP, RD)
 
VI) Cardiac Anesthesia
-The Adult Cardiac Surgical Patient-Introduction
​-Monitoring During Adult Cardiac Surgery
-Using Vasoactive/Inotropic/Antiarrhythmic Drugs During the Adult Open-Chest Cardiac Procedure 
-Cardiac Surgery:  Moving Toward Evidence Based Management of Coagulation During Cardiac Surgery
-Intraoperative Echocardiography: The role of the Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist as a Best Fit Model for Patient Care
-Epiaortic Imaging of the Ascending Aorta:  CT Anesthesiologists’ and Surgeons’ Interventions and the Impact on Stroke Prevention
 
VII) Surgical and Percutaneous Therapies
-CABG (on pump, arrested)
-CABG for Acute MI with Shock
-Pericardiectomy
-Mitral Valve Surgery with Concomitant AVR
-Transapical MVR (valve-in-valve for MV bioprosthesis)
-Pulmonary Valve Replacement
-Branched Stent Grafts for TAAA
 
VIII) Prevention and Therapeutics
-Antimicrobial Therapy in Cardiac Surgical Patients
-Nutrition
-Special Consideration for Cardiac Surgery in Cancer Patients